Located in Palm Beach County, Florida, the USD 66 million Spanish River Interchange project will improve access to and from Florida Atlantic
University and I- 95, and relieve traffic on the adjacent Glades Road and Yamato Road interchanges. The project includes new access roads,
ramps, and auxiliary lanes as well as road widening and intersection improvements. A total of 13 bridges are involved, including eight that
were newly constructed, three that were widened, and two replacement bridges.
Beiswenger, Hoch and Associates (BHA) used GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite and LEAP Bridge to develop an accelerated bridge
construction scheme that replaced proposed steel structures with Florida-I Beam prestressed concrete bridges. The OpenRoads corridor
modeling tool enabled rapid design iteration, resulting in substantial cost savings. Overall, Bentley software automated and reduced the
design time required for a project of this magnitude.
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